Example sentences of "he then [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policeman frisked him then reached for his handcuffs . |
| 2 | He then left for New York , to complain to the United Nations of ’ Pakistani military aggression ’ . |
| 3 | He then applied for a mandamus directed to the visitor to hear an appeal on the grounds that the earlier appeal to the visitor had been no true appeal at all . |
| 4 | He then served for nearly two years as permanent secretary of the Ministry of Aircraft Production ( 1943–5 ) . |
| 5 | He then served for three years as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 6 | He then asked for an adjournment of the conference if agreement was not possible . |
| 7 | He then asked for a drink of water . |
| 8 | In 1900 he went to St Thomas 's Hospital to study medicine , qualifying in 1906 as MRCS and LRCP , and he then went for a short time to Brompton Hospital and Convalescent Centre . |
| 9 | In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 . |
| 10 | He then surveyed for a French company a number of railway lines in Italy and Switzerland , before returning to England , where he worked on the Birmingham and Wolverhampton Railway and the Kennet and Avon and Stourbridge canals . |
| 11 | He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country . |
| 12 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 13 | He then waited for the next major religious festival — Whitsuntide — and made the translation into a great occasion , although with troops at hand in case of trouble . |
| 14 | He then fainted for a few seconds . |
| 15 | He then sat for Ross and Cromarty , 1847–68 . |
| 16 | Dismissed from the Albertina because of his German nationality , he then worked for the Graphische Sammlung , Munich , until 1971 as a curator and then as director . |
| 17 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 18 | He then worked for three years for Alexander Cowan & Co. at Musselburgh Paper Mills . |
| 19 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |